Army
More service members being investigated for Kirk-related posts
The Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard are receiving more information regarding their service members’ comments regarding Charlie Kirk’s assassination. The Army said that over a dozen Soldiers have been relieved of their duties pending investigation of their posts. The numbers of service members being investigated for their Charlie Kirk comments is […]
Valor Friday
The earthly remains of US Army Captain Willibald Bianchi have been identified more than 80 years after he died. Bianchi is notable for having received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Bataan in 1942. Bianchi died three years later, after surviving unimaginable horrors before he was able to receive the […]
Saturday Shorts
Leading off the parade we have Special Operations Command, who are buying a new AR variant rifle from Lewis Machine & Tools (LMT) chambered in 6.5mm Creedmoor. On August 22, 2025, the Pentagon announced that a $92 million USSOCOM contract had been awarded to Lewis Machine & Tools Defense for “medium range gas gun-assault […]
Army Appearance Standards Changes
Trivia question: what percentage of soldiers are female? Black? That will come up later. The Army is tightening up appearance standards, and rolling back some Biden-era changes. Women will be permitted to use clear nail polish, as opposed to the previous rules, which placed limits on only “extreme” colors. The changes also impose more specific […]
Army suffers burst of sanity
The Army has finally discovered that some folks in excellent condition don’t necessarily look it. Soldiers who score a 465 or better on the Army Fitness Test will not be subject to flagging actions for body fat percentage, the service decided this month. An Army Directive distributed Sept. 4 allows for an exemption to […]
M-7 dropped from testing program
As we’ve previously discussed, the Army decided they needed a more-lethal, longer-range round – too many firefights in Afghanistan where we were outranged, they say. I can sorta see that – the M4/M16 family uses a pretty short-legged cartridge in the 5.56. It’s better than it was in the old days, when a 55 […]
Maryland Governor Wes Moore gets Bronze Star 18 years after lying about having one
Maryland Governor, Wes Moore, found himself in hot water when he implied that he received a Bronze Star Medal because of his combat deployment. Moore, while applying for a White house fellowship in 2006, claimed to have received the Bronze Star from his Afghanistan deployment. When it turned out that he did not have it, […]
Valor Friday
For the several thousand men who landed at Normandy on 6 June 1944, many wouldn’t make it to VE Day just shy of one year later. As with the men that fought, the equipment was even more disposable. So it’s unusual that a tank like the M4 Sherman pictured above, named “Bomb”, would make it […]
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